If you get a Biglaw job you will be able to pay the debt off without too much trouble. Unless you get some loan repayment assistance $100k of debt in public interest job or academia could be somewhat difficult. So it depends on what you want to do with the degree.

Law school debt can be crushing. Paying off $100,000 in five years is very ambitious. That would be paying $20,000 a year, if there is no interest. Interest rates are high these days, grad plus I think is around 8-9%. Say you make $60,000 before taxes. . . that's too much for loan forgiveness. . . Can you see the picture? (Making big law bucks is hard and statistically speaking, unlikely)If you are having a hard time understanding how much $100,000 is, I suggest you take a couple of years off before law school and try to support yourself. It has lots of benefits beyond making me depressed whenever I see my loan statements arrive in the mail, but it will help put financial aid into perspective.All that being said, I personally think that law school is worth it, but I would extend your payback timeline by a bunch.

DCDuck wrote:Law school debt can be crushing. Paying off $100,000 in five years is very ambitious. That would be paying $20,000 a year, if there is no interest. Interest rates are high these days, grad plus I think is around 8-9%. Say you make $60,000 before taxes. . . that's too much for loan forgiveness. . . Can you see the picture? (Making big law bucks is hard and statistically speaking, unlikely)If you are having a hard time understanding how much $100,000 is, I suggest you take a couple of years off before law school and try to support yourself. It has lots of benefits beyond making me depressed whenever I see my loan statements arrive in the mail, but it will help put financial aid into perspective.All that being said, I personally think that law school is worth it, but I would extend your payback timeline by a bunch.

Don't worry about it. Your in H.S. right? Go to college, drink beer, and get laid while getting the best GPA you can in at least a semi-marketable degree and you will be fine. Hopefully, you will think it over 100 times before you need to cross that bridge and look to see if there is anything else you might rather do. I didn't finally decide to go to law school until last year around this time and had spent my whole time gearing up to apply for PhD programs.